Mar 15, 2026·Alien6 Research
Technical OSINT: Mapping Attack Surfaces
Passive and active reconnaissance techniques for mapping your own attack surface and identifying exposure vectors.
SécuritéOSINTThreat Intelligence
Articles
Analyses & technical insights
8 articles · Published by Alien6 teams
Feb 15, 2026·Alien6 Research
Cryptographic Attestation in CI/CD Pipelines
How to use cryptographic attestation to prevent supply chain attacks in CI/CD pipelines.
DevSecOpsSécuritéCI/CD
Jan 15, 2026·Alien6 Research
Embedding Strategy for Advanced RAG Systems
Why embedding strategy is the most underestimated architectural decision in RAG system design.
RAGEmbeddingsArchitecture
Dec 15, 2025·Alien6 Research
Why Your RAG Pipeline Is Underperforming
The four structural pathologies that cause most production RAG systems to underperform — and how to fix them.
RAGLLMArchitecture
Nov 15, 2025·Alien6 Research
Prompt Engineering vs Fine-Tuning: Which Strategy to Choose
An engineering framework for deciding between prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and RAG based on cost, latency, and quality trade-offs.
LLMPrompt EngineeringFine-Tuning
Oct 15, 2025·Alien6 Research
LLMs in Production: 5 Architecture Patterns
Five patterns observed in production-grade LLM systems for managing cost, latency, and reliability.
LLMArchitectureProduction
Sep 15, 2025·Alien6 Research
Zero-Trust Is Not a Product, It's a Philosophy
Why zero-trust cannot be purchased as a product, and what it actually requires architecturally.
SécuritéZero-TrustArchitecture
Aug 15, 2025·Alien6 Research
The Kubernetes Operator as a General Pattern
How the Kubernetes operator pattern generalizes beyond stateful apps to encode any complex operational logic into the control plane.
InfrastructureKubernetesDevOps